B-52's Out Of Sight But Not Out Of Songs

Better Yet

August 11, 1989|By JOE PRYWELLER Staff Writer

The B-52's are one of the strangest groups ever to have its interplanetary funk find its way to radio. Now the band, which just put out its first album since 1986, will deliver its cosmic songs Wednesday from the Boathouse stage in Norfolk.

It's been 11 years since audiences first began dancing like mad to songs such as "Rock Lobster," "Private Idaho" and "Legal Tender." The members entertained with their distorted dance rhythms, varieties of weird sounds and herky-jerky energy. In concert, they chased each other around the stage.

The beehive hairdos are back (vocalists Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson wear them) and so is the quirkiness - check out their new album, "Cosmic Thing". The Athens, Ga., group continues in its own universe of fun with songs such as "Love Shack" and "Channel Z."

Get hit by the B-52's and opening act Royal Crescent Mob at 9 p.m. Wednesday at The Boathouse, 119 Bessie's Place in Norfolk (down the street from Waterside). Tickets cost $9 and are available at E-Z Tiks outlets or by calling 1-800-448-9009.